{"id":12790,"date":"2013-07-02T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2013-07-02T02:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T09:32:52","slug":"california-travel-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-travel-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"California Travel Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/to10.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo panels left to right \u00a0show top counties for tourism tax revenue: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Monterey, Alameda, and Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>During the past year (2012) travel spending in California increased by 4.5%&#8211;slightly less than the previous year, but when inflation is factored in, there was a slight increase in spending \u00a0in 2012. Tourism related employment increased by 2.7% in 2012. California tourism is on the rise!<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALIFORNIA TRAVEL EXPENSES IN 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Hotel\/motel $54 billion<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Housing\/vacation homes $17.6 billion<\/li>\n<li>Campgrounds $3.4 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are 58 California counties&#8211;here are highlights from 2011 of money collected in Transient Occupancy Taxes (TOT) guests pay when they book hotel rooms and accommodations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP 10 COUNTIES TOT COLLECTED\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0POPULATION\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0ATTRACTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Los Angeles \u00a0$323.6 million\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09,911,665\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beaches, museums, Hollywood, LAX<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco $298.4 million\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0820,349\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beaches &amp; bay, parks, museums<\/li>\n<li>San Diego \u00a0$172.5 million\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a03,147,220\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beaches, theme parks<\/li>\n<li>Orange $153.9 million \u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3,071,933\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beaches, theme parks<\/li>\n<li>Riverside \u00a0$60 million \u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2,244,399\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Palm Desert, casinos, national parks<\/li>\n<li>Santa Clara $57.1 million \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1,828,597\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Silicon Valley, theme parks, museums<\/li>\n<li>San Mateo $47.2 million \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 736,362\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beaches, SFO<\/li>\n<li>Monterey $42.9 million \u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 422,868\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beaches, golf resorts<\/li>\n<li>Alameda $36.6 million \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1,540,790\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 pro sports, gateway transportation, museums<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barabara $34. 7 million \u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0427,358\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beaches, wineries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo panels left to right \u00a0show top counties for tourism tax revenue: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Monterey, Alameda, and Santa Barbara. During the past year (2012) travel spending in California increased by 4.5%&#8211;slightly less than the previous year, but when inflation is factored in, there was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}